Concrete eence construction



G. AUER. CONCRETE FENCE CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 18, I913.

Patented Aug. 29, 1916.

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G. AUEB.

CONCRETE FENCE CONSTRUCTION.

APPLlCATiON FILED mus. 1913.

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Patented Aug. 29, 1916.

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GEORGE AUER, 01? WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO H. C. MERRITT, OF TUCKAHOE, NEW YORK.

CONCRETE FENCE CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed January 18, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE Anna, a. citizen of the United States, residing at White Plains, in the county of Westchester, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Concrete Fence Construction, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description.

This invention relates to the making of reinforced concrete fence sections particularly such as are used as guard rails along country highways.

The object of the invention is to produce a type of fence which may be built in continuous sections upon the job with a minimum of mold lumber for the job and with a saving of concrete.

According to my invention 1 cast the vertical posts and an intermediate rail upon the job in suitable molds which may be quickly removed as the parts are but simple straight forms which may rest upon the ground in horizontal position until they harden without the use of many molds. The vertical posts are cast with recesses to take the ends of the intermediate rail when in course of erection. The intermediate rail is also used to support the mold for the top rail, which is the only part of the section which requires a mold in erection. In practice after the two vertical posts and the intermediate rail have hardened, the posts are placed into the post holes in vertical position, the intermediate rail being first slipped into place with its ends in the recesses. Then a mold, preferably a sectional mold, is placed across the tops of the posts and supported by short vertical supports resting on the intermediate rail, thus insuring uniformity of distance between the two rails and at the same time economizing in supporting lumber. Then reinforcing horizontal bars are laid in the mold and anchored to reinforcements protruding from the top of the vertical posts. The concrete is then poured into the mold and finished off at the open upper face of the mold with an ordinary trowel. It will be seen that in the molding operation the posts and the mold lock and hold the intermediate rail and in the finished section the set concrete of the top rail permanently secures this result.

The scope of my invention will be pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a front view of one fence sec- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1916.

Serial No. 742,812.

tion with a portion of the mold in place. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the completed section. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 Fig. 2, with the mold in place. Fig. 4 is a plan with the mold in place. Fig. 5 is a section on 55 Fig. 1; and Fig. 6 is a detail section of the recesses of the post.

As shown in the drawings, 1 is the ground, 2 the vertical posts each having rounded corners and reinforcements 3, a portion protruding from the top of the posts. Recesses 4 are cast in each vertical post as shown in Fig. 6. The intermediate rail 5 with reinforcements 6 is of greater length than the distance between the two posts when in position.

As shown in Fig. 1 a lower mold board 7 is held in place between the upper ends of the posts by vertical supports 8 bifurcated at its lower end to straddle the rail 5. The opening between the bifurcated ends opens into an opening 9 into which a wedge 10 may be driven to line up each support under the board 7. Side mold boards 11 and 12 are clamped as by a clamp 13 to the sides of the lower board 7 and reinforcing rods 14 placed in the mold and the concrete 15 poured into place and then smoothed with a trowel.

In carrying out this invention, details of construction may be varied from those shown, and yet the essence of the invention be retained; some parts might be employed without others, and new features thereof might be combined with elements old in the art in diverse ways, although the herein described type is regarded as embodying substantial improvements over such modifications.

As many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted in an illustrative and not in a limiting sense. It is furthermore desired to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which as a matter of language might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim as my invention:

1. A fence comprising separately formed reinforced concrete posts having embedded members projecting from the tops thereof, and a reinforced concrete top rail molded in contact with the tops of said posts and completely embedding the projecting portions of the said members.

2. A fence comprising separately formed reinforced concrete posts having their reinforcements projecting from the tops thereof, said posts being also molded with recesses in their sides, separately formed reinforced concrete intermediate rail sections having their ends inserted in said recesses, and a monolithic top rail molded in contact with the tops of said posts and completely embedding the projecting portions of the post reinforcements.

3. The method of making a concrete fence which comprises casting posts separately and placing them in position, then setting up a mold extending lengthwise at the tops of the posts, and casting therein a monolithic top rail in contact with and uniting the posts.

a. The method of making a concrete fence which comprises casting posts separately with anchoring members projecting at their upper ends, erecting the posts, and casting a continuous top rail extending along the tops of the posts and embedding said anchoring members.

5. The method of making a concrete fence which comprises casting and erecting posts and intermediate rails, then setting up and supporting on said intermediate rails a mold extending lengthwise at the tops of the posts, and casting in said mold a continuous top rail in contact With and uniting the posts.

Signed at White Plains, lVestchester county, N. Y., this 16th day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

GEORGE AUER. Witnesses J. O. M. VAN TASSEL, GEo. H. BALDWIN.

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